Mykhailo Kutsyn

Mykhailo Kutsyn (15 August 1957-) was a general of Ukraine who was Chief-of-Staff of the Ukrainian Army in 2014, succeeding Yuriy Ilyin and preceding Viktor Muzhenko.

Biography
Mykhailo Kutsyn was born on 15 August 1957 in Svoboda, Zakarpattia Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine). From 1978 to 1992 he served in the Soviet Army, and afterwards, he served in the newy-created Ukrainian Army of independent Ukraine. A graduate of tank school in the USSR, he served in Kharkov, Belarus, and Germany under Soviet rule before serving in the armed forces of Ukraine, and he was Deputy Minister of Defense in March 2010. Kutsyn was appointed Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine on 28 February 2014 by President Oleksandr Turchynov in the aftermath of the Euromaidan revolution, and he fought against the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, two pro-Russia separatist states. On 2 July 2014 he was hospitalized after experiencing shell-shock, and a day later President Petro Poroshenko appointed Viktor Muzhenko to succeed him as Chief-of-Staff.